SIGN OF COMMITMENT: The acts resolves to ‘develop a long-term strategic vision and a comprehensive, multifaceted and principled United States policy for the Indo-Pacific region’
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 19, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday expressed gratitude to the US House of
US Senator Cory Gardner listens during a US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on July 25. Photo: AFP
Representatives for passing the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, which includes a section detailing the US’ commitments to Taiwan.
The legislation, which aims to “develop a long-term strategic vision and a comprehensive, multifaceted and principled United States policy for the Indo-Pacific region,” cleared the floor of the House on Wednesday last week, after being passed by the US Senate on Dec. 4.
It was in April introduced by US Senator Cory Gardner, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy, and cosponsored by senators Ed Markey, Marco Rubio, Ben Cardin and Todd Young.
Under Section 209 of the bill, the US reiterated its commitment to support close economic, political and security ties between Taiwan and the US, and to “faithfully enforce” all existing US commitments to Taiwan in line with the Taiwan Relations Act, the Three Joint Communiques and the “six assurances” agreed to by then-US president Ronald Reagan in 1982. [FULL STORY]
